Melodi Dinçer

Melodi (she/ella) is a tech justice lawyer with expertise in data privacy, “AI” policy, and biometric surveillance. Her critical approach explores how legal and political institutions enable corporate technologies to target marginalized communities in our schools, workplaces, homes, streets, and beyond. She has authored numerous agency comments and amicus briefs filed before the Federal Trade Commission, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S. Copyright Office, California Privacy Protection Agency, and various state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Melodi is also a Fellow with the Institute of Technology, Law and Policy at UCLA and a Lecturer at UCLA Law, where she continues to teach courses on data privacy, tech policy, and advocacy. Before coming to LA, she was a Supervising Attorney with NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic; her recent paper in the Clinical Law Review offers a justice-informed approach to client selection for tech law clinicians. She has also served as a Legal Research Fellow with the Knowing Machines Research Group, a Fellow with NYU Law’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and an Appellate Advocacy Fellow with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). She clerked for the Honorable Arenda L. Wright Allen on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.